Device for building up illustrations



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DEVICE FOR BUILDING UP ILLUSTRATION S.

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DEVICE FOR BUILDING UP ILLUSTRATIONS E. HERZ 2,393,772

Filed May 27, 1944 3 Sheets-Sheet 3 ATTO R N EY Patented Jan. 29, 1946 UNITED STATES PATENT. OFFICE,

Application May 27, 1944, Serial No. 537,692 1 Claim. (01. 46-21) This invention relates to a device for buildin up illustrations of historical and religious events, of stories and particularly religious stories, of fairy tales and the like.

Devices of a similar type consist of individual sheets of cardboard or other suitable materials. These sheets are painted in conformity with the particular subject to be presented, The sheets are so constructed as to be converted by prearranged incisions, cutouts, creases and folds into a scenic three-dimensional structure and. to be reconverted into the fiat condition when not used for the scenic presentation,

Tongues and slots are customarily provided in the sheet to secure the scenic structure in its three-dimensional form.

The novelty and the progress of the invention resides therein that the sheets to be converted into the illustration of stories, fairy tales and the like consist of the pages of the book.

The book pages contain a pictorial portion adapted to be separated therefrom along its outline. The separated portion is provided with suitable means to be converted into a three-dimensional scenic or architectural structure forming the illustration of the historic events, of stories, fairy tales and the like, and after being reflattened to be reinserted into the book.

The range of applying the invention is large.

The book may consist of pages, each of which may be converted into a scenic and plastic rep resentation of characteristic parts of historical events, of stories and particularly religious stories, of fairy tales and the like narrative matter; a description of the presented scene may be applied to the separable portion of the page.

The invention is described in the following by way of example, reference being made to the accompanying drawings, of which 7 Fig. 1 shows a front elevation of one page inserted in the book constructed in conformity with m invention,

Fig. 2 shows a front elevation of the separable portion of the page to be converted into a scenic structure and adapted to be easily removed from the page, and

Fig. 3 shows a perspective view of the assembled scenic structure.

The book shown in the drawings consists of a cover I and a plurality of pages 2; the front part of the cover may be provided with a suitable title and pictorial illustrations relating to the descriptive matter which is to be presented by the book pages.

One of the pages to be inserted in the book cover is illustrated in the drawings; it consists of a border portion 3 to be retained in the book cover and a center portion 4; border portion 3 also may consist of a single strip to hold the separable portion 4 instead of a frame-like body, as shown; portion 4 is adapted to be separated from the book page along its severed or otherwise separable outlines 23.

This separable portion is convertible into a three-dimensional scenic structure and may be reflattened for reinsertion into the book page,

For its conversion into the self-supporting structure shown in Fig. 3 separable page portion 4 shown in Fig, 1 and Fig. 2 is provided with suitably arranged incisions 8, 2| shown in full lines, creases 9, l4, 15, 2|], 22, shown in dotted lines, tongues l0, l6 and slits ll, 11.

This separable page portion comprises a base 5, a background 6, two side panels or wings I and a front strip l8 connecting the two side wings.

Incisions 8 and creases 9 are provided along the meeting edge of base 5 and side panels I.

Tongues Ill and slits ll form the connection of these two portions in the upright self-supporting position shown in Fig. 3.

In this position the structure rests on border portions l3 and on parts l2 which serve as a support.

Crease I5 is provided to bend the border portion l3 into a supporting flap extending vertically in the position shown in Fig. 3.

Creases 14 are provided at the meeting lines of the side wings I and background 6 which render it possible to advance the side wings and to connect the same with the base by tongues I 0 and slits II in the self-supporting position,

The structure is stiffened by front strip l8 connecting the side wings and provided with tongue IE to be entered into slit ll.

Greases 20 cooperating with incisions 8 render the bending of table 23 in the three dimensional position possible.

Various changes and modifications may be made to the details of the invention without departing from the broader spirit and scope thereof, as set forth in the following claim.

I claim:

A device for building up illustrations of historic and religious events, of stories and the like, comprising a book, single pages in the said book, the single book page containing a pictorial portion adapted to be separated from the book page along its outline, the said separable portion being adapted to be converted into a three-dimensional scenic structure and to be reinserted into the 2 7 book page, said separable portion being composed of a base, a background, aplurality of side wings and an upper front strip, creases along the meeting lines of the base, the side wings and the background, incisions along the meeting lines ofthe base and the side wings, tongues and slots in the border portions of the base'and the side wings adjacent to the said incisions, a crease and an incision extending along the meeting line of 2,393,?72 i o .s k V the said upper front strip, the background and the side wings, a tongue and a slit in the border portions of'the said upper strip, and of the one side wing adjacent to the said strip, being thereby adapted to be converted upon removal from the book into an upright self-supporting scenic structure and to be reflattened into its original state for reinsertion into the book.

ERWIN HERZ. 

